Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Man Vs Wild S01E014 Ecuador 13 Jul. 2007

Story: Ecuador is home to the world's longest mountain range and the world's biggest and most impenetrable jungle, the Amazon. Last year, more than a million people came to experience this vast wilderness -- and 55 got lost in the country's mountains, jungles or waterways and needed to be rescued. In this episode, host Bear Grylls paraglides onto the edge of the Andes and follows rivers into the jungle -- bringing him face to face with huge colonies of spear-nosed bats, giant weevil grubs (larvae) and vicious piranhas. Bear builds a bamboo bridge and a bow and arrow to successfully catch fish, but it doesn't always go his way -- he's forced to ride the rapids of the Amazon on a single tree trunk.